Brief History of Equality
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2022
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA, USA
Language: eng
Translated from: fre
Translation of: Une bréve historie de l’égalité
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9780674273559
Copyright date: 2022
First sentence: This book offers a comparative history of inequalities among social classes in human societies.
Description: A summary of how inequality has decreased over time, an examination of the mechanisms involved in the decrease, and suggestions about what must be done to continue the decrease.
Table of contents: title: Contents
pagenum: v; title: Acknowledgements
pagenum: vii; label: 1
title: The Movement toward Equality: The First Milestones
pagenum: 16; label: 2
title: The Slow Deconcentration of Power and Property
pagenum: 30; label: 3
title: The Heritage of Slavery and Colonialism
pagenum: 48; label: 4
title: The Question of Reparations
pagenum: 68; label: 5
title: Revolution, Status, and Class
pagenum: 95; label: 6
title: The “Great Redistribution”: 1914–1980
pagenum: 121; label: 7
title: Democracy, Socialism, and Progressive Taxation
pagenum: 150; label: 8
title: Real Equality against Discrimination
pagenum: 175; label: 9
title: Exiting Neocolonialism
pagenum: 203; label: 10
title: Toward a Democratic, Ecological, and Multicultural Socialism
pagenum: 226; title: Contents in Detail
pagenum: 247; title: List of Tables and Illustrations
pagenum: 251; title: Index
pagenum: 255